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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 16:14:29 GMT
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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 16:15:02 GMT
27920 Private John 'Jack' Beetham, 1st Border Regiment. Killed in action on 27th January 1917, aged 26.
KILLED IN ACTION
BEETHAM, Pte. Jack, Border Regt., youngest son of Mr. John Beetham, Ambleside, has been killed in action in France. He was 26, and served his apprenticeship as a waller with Mr. Arthur Jackson, contractor. As a Territorial, a member of the Fire Brigade, an Association football player, a fell racer, etc., he was well known and very popular. He was a member of the Ambleside Association football team when they held the cup and challenge shield in 1908, and he was successful in winning two fell races in one year at Bowness, the Jubilee cup and the event at the gala. He leaves a widow (daughter of Mr. Thos. Barrow, Wansfell Terrace) and one child. He had been in France for a year and was working as a stretcher-bearer, and two days before his death he had written home mentioning that they were about to go into a very hot corner. His platoon sergeant, writing on behalf of himself and comrades, testifies to the respect he had won amongst them, and that he was buried on Sunday, the 28th inst.
(Westmorland Gazette, 17 February 1917)
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